The Crime Library is a collection of well-known criminal cases designed as a resource of HSC Legal Studies students and teachers. Each case includes links to the court decision (if available), databass of newspaper and legal journal articles, and any books that cover the case. The Crime Library is compiled by staff from the Legal Information Access Centre (State Library of NSW). Find the Crime Library at: http://guides.sl.nsw.gov.au/liac-crime-library

Should juries be told about the prior convictions of defendants? [video] - The Chief #Justice of Queensland's proposal that #juries be told about the prior convictions of defendants has received qualified support from the state's Attorney General, but the Western Australia Criminal Lawyers Association says the proposal is wrong | Lateline, ABCTV

The Sentencing Advisory Council’s popular You be the Judge program is available online. Visitors can participate in various aspects of sentencing, receiving information from victims, offenders, prosecutors, defence lawyers and the judge.

Legal Studies Columns - Published regularly, this column provides a class exercise based on an article published in the Alternative Law Journal. The exercises are prepared by #legalstudies #teachers for secondary legal studies #students. An exercise & its related article in one pdf costs 9.90AUD (incl GST) | Alternative Law Journal

George Brandis urged to respect rule of law by former Liberal attorney general John Dowd writes to attorney general over concern at lack of sufficient funding for Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

Castan Centre @CastanCentre What are #humanrights? #gotthatright Human rights are the universal entitlements of all people. All human beings are inherently entitled to these rights irrespective of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or identity, disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, colour, place of residence or any other status. Human rights are not bought or earned; people have them merely because they are human.